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A full-page ad on CF? No, this is not a good thing.

The banners are annoying enough, but OK. You have to give the new owners some room to do business and I can live with that. But a full-page, take-over-the-screen advertisement hitting me in the face when I land on the CF homepage? WHAT THE F---?! Now I've had to make CF a restricted website in IE in order to keep that garbage out of my way. (And no, I'm not going to install any extra plugins or extensions to IE to selectively block the offending portions...now you simply lose everything from me apart from my IP address and OS/browser info. No more analytics, no more ad services, no more of anything else.)

So if anyone from the overlords' office actually reads this feedback section then please tell them that I am personally put off by this. Let them know it's me. I'm sure that will get things moving.

Seriously though, much more of this type of boneheaded "marketing" and I'm afraid I'll be out of patience. I can't tell you how many members will go elsewhere if things keep heading in the current direction...but I know of at least one.

If anyone knows of a website that can offer ColdFusion help that isn't controlled by neurotic, pedantic jerks* (stackoverflow.com), please PM me with a link.* The neurotic, pedantic jerks are not the owners; just the people who are in control of the "popularity contest".

Neither do I but as kind of expected as this was I’m also a little concerned about the effect this will have on new and established users. I would be awfully sad if I had to leave this community because people are driven off in masses and things are changing in ways with which I couldn’t identify anymore.

If anyone knows of a website that can offer ColdFusion help that isn't controlled by neurotic, pedantic jerks* (stackoverflow.com), please PM me with a link.* The neurotic, pedantic jerks are not the owners; just the people who are in control of the "popularity contest".

Thank you, OracleGuy. I really don't want to go find another forum, I like this one just fine, and would like to stick around.

^_^

If anyone knows of a website that can offer ColdFusion help that isn't controlled by neurotic, pedantic jerks* (stackoverflow.com), please PM me with a link.* The neurotic, pedantic jerks are not the owners; just the people who are in control of the "popularity contest".

Thanks guys; next time you see it popup, can you pull a screenshot of it and post 'er up?
I'm not sure of everything I've done with my browser now, but it turns out I get. . . ah no ads now at all, even when I want to get them. Lol.

I don't have to worry about this at work, as the network is scoured and scrubbed so I won't see it, here. But I don't have that luxury at home.

Thank you, Fou-Lu and OracleGuy, for fixing it.

^_^

If anyone knows of a website that can offer ColdFusion help that isn't controlled by neurotic, pedantic jerks* (stackoverflow.com), please PM me with a link.* The neurotic, pedantic jerks are not the owners; just the people who are in control of the "popularity contest".

Rofl! (Can someone please 'splain to me why I typed in all caps, yet it saved in proper case??)

^_^

If anyone knows of a website that can offer ColdFusion help that isn't controlled by neurotic, pedantic jerks* (stackoverflow.com), please PM me with a link.* The neurotic, pedantic jerks are not the owners; just the people who are in control of the "popularity contest".